The Sky’s the Limit – Evolution in construction of high-rise buildings

Pierre-Claude Aïtcin; William Wilson

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The Sky’s the Limit – Evolution in construction of high-rise buildings

Pierre-Claude Aïtcin ¹

William Wilson ¹

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Faculty of Engineering, Sherbrooke, Canada

Publication date: 2015-07-01

Cement Wapno Beton 20(4) 209-216 (2015)

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ACI Honorary Member Pierre-Claude Aïtcin is Professor Emeritus at the Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada. He was the Scientifi c Director of Concrete Canada, the Network of Centres of Excel lence on High-Performance Concrete for 8 years. He also held an Industrial Chair on Concrete technology for 9 years in col laboration with 13 industrial partners. ACI member William Wilson is pursu ing advanced graduate studies at the Université de Sherbrooke. His research interests include microstructure charac terization and properties engineering of highly durable concrete incorporating alternative supplementary cementitious materials. He received his BEng from the Université de Sherbrooke and his MS from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

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